Bug#1121177: openblas breaks multiple autopkgtest on ppc64el

[Paul Gevers]

user debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
usertag 1121177 ppc64el
thanks

Dear ppc64el porters,

On 11/25/25 15:41, Sébastien Villemot wrote:

> I talked to upstream about the problem (in an issue that was initially
> about a FTBFS, due to a failure in OpenBLAS own testsuite, which has
> since been fixed):
> https://github.com/OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS/issues/5372#issuecomment-3353517450
> 
> Unfortunately upstream does not really know where the test failures in
> third-party software come from. In particular, they can’t replicate the
> issue (note that they tried with more recent git snapshot than version
> 0.3.30), and I couldn’t either with Debian version 0.3.30+ds-3 (tried
> on the ppc64el Debian porterbox).
> 
> At this point, fixing this issue is beyond my time budget and skills (I
> know next to zero about PowerPC, and the issue is probably due to some
> changes to PowerPC assembly code). CC’ing the Debian PowerPC porters,
> with the hope that they can help.


We're in dire need of your help, the issue is stalling openblas' 
migration to testing and because it's a key package, autoremoval doesn't 
work.

Paul

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